Bill Text: VA HB545 | 2014 | Regular Session | Prefiled

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Bill Title: Elections; hours polls to be open.

Sponsorship: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2014-02-12 - Left in Privileges and Elections [HB545 Detail]

Download: Virginia-2014-HB545-Prefiled.html

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HOUSE BILL NO. 545 Offered January 8, 2014 Prefiled January 6, 2014 A BILL to amend and reenact § 24.2-603 of the Code of Virginia, relating to hours polls to be open on the day of the election. ---------- Patron-- Filler-Corn ---------- Committee Referral Pending ----------

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That § 24.2-603 of the Code of Virginia is amended and reenacted as follows:

§24.2-603. Hours polls to be open; closing the polls.

At all elections, the polls shall be open opened at each polling place at 6:00 a.m. on the day of the election and closed at 7:00 8:00 p.m. on the same day except as provided for central absentee voter precincts pursuant to subsection F of §24.2-712.

At 6:45 7:45 p.m. an officer of election shall announce that the polls will close in fifteen 15 minutes. The officers of election shall list the names of all qualified voters in line before the polling place at 7:00 8:00 p.m. and permit those voters and no others to vote after 7:00 8:00 p.m.